I was listening to some of the statements made by Winston Churchill on VE Day in 1945, and this short passage, delivered from the Ministry of Health building in London, drew the attention of my inner grammar nerd (who, to be frank, is not really all that inner): Everyone, man or woman, has done their best. Everyone has tried, none have flinched. Neither the long years, nor the dangers, nor the fierce attacks of the enemy, have in any way weakened the unbending resolve of the British nation.